Name: Methylothermus subterraneus HTM55
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24812

Type strain:

Species: Methylothermus subterraneus

Strain Designation: HTM55

Culture col. no.: DSM 19750, JCM 13664

Strain history: H. Hirayama HTM55.

NCBI tax ID(s): 697197 (species)

SI-ID 406724

DSM 19750

Special Collections

DSMZ
JCM

Section

Methylothermus subterraneus HTM55 is a bacterium that was isolated from hot spring water a subsurface gold mine.

16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Methylococcales*
	Family	*Methylothermaceae*
	Genus	*Methylothermus*
	Species	**Methylothermus subterraneus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methylothermus subterraneus Hirayama et al. 2019

Synonym

"Methylothermus subterraneus"

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHYLOTHERMUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1412)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #21088]			growth	55 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	50 °C

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #21088]	Sample type/isolated from	hot spring water a subsurface gold mine
[Ref.: #21088]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #21088]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #21088]	Continent	Asia

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Subsurface hot aquifer water in the Hishikari gold mine
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kagoshima
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Other	#Mine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB536747 (>99% sequence identity) for Methylothermus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	22
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	27

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #21088]	Methylothermus subterraneus gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB536747	1470	GenBank ENA	697197 tax ID

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GC-content

54.4 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 19750, JCM 13664

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SI-ID 406724

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methylothermus subterraneus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic methanotroph isolated from a terrestrial subsurface hot aquifer.	Hirayama H, Suzuki Y, Abe M, Miyazaki M, Makita H, Inagaki F, Uematsu K, Takai K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.028092-0	2010	*

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#21088

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19750

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#88634

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID406724.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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